Alys, Sheltering. @LYS
[to Whom the thirtieth day of May, day 150, is dedicated]
Geography/Culture:European celtic.
She is especially associated with the Rhöne. Linguistic Note: Various female names including, Alice, Alison and Alys, are said by some to be derived from a Greek word meaning 'Truth'. According to others the name Alice derives from Old French Aliz a contraction of Adaliz from Old High German Adalhaid meaning 'nobility'. The word Alyschamps, (see the name of Her sepulchral island), which names a Roman cemetary found in Arles, comes from the Latin Elysii Campii after the Greek Elysian Fields. Description: Muse Goddess of rivers, death and immortality; Queen of the sepulchral island Alyschamps in the Rhöne. To Whom Sacred: alder; service-tree; sorb-apple; {the genus alyssum; the colour and compound Alizarin}; elf.
Geography/Culture: Asia Minor.
The River Halys rises in the mountains of central Turkey and eventually flows into the Black Sea. Linguistic Note: Graves says this is not a Greek word, but just as a matter of interest: Greek halis, means 'abundance', Greek alys means 'listlessness, ennui'. Elysian seems to mean (according to Graves) 'Apple-Land'. Description: Goddess of the River Halys; Queen of the Elysian Islands; She Whose abode makes the inhabitants blessed.
Titles/Variants, etc:
Perhaps Alys, above, is a variant..
Variant: Elis.
Source: EB/Arles; GMv1/114, 124; WG.RG/191, 254.
worked on: July 28, 1990; August 6, 1991; May 1995.
